Special Issues
positions: asia critique has published over 30 special issues, including several award-winners.
– Best New Journal, 1995
– Best Special Issue, 1999 (Runner-Up) – empires of hygiene
– Best Special Issue, 2008 – war capital trauma
– Best Special Issue, 2010 – beyond the strai(gh)ts: transnationalism and queer chinese politics
– Best Special Issue, 2015 – reconsidering the 2006 MIT visualizing cultures controversy
Awards are given by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, of the Modern Language Association.
Our most recent special issues are:
positions: asia critique 29.1 – the politics of storytelling in imperial island formations
positions: asia critique 29.3 – productive encounters: kinship, gender, and family laws in east asia
positions: asia critique 29.4 – the maoism of prc history: against dominant trends in anglophone academia
Discover previous special issues on the Duke University Press positions: asia critique website.
To submit a special issue, see Submissions.